Flush draw -- comments, please

[quirkasaurus]

Poker Stars
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.01/$0.02
7 players
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Pre-flop: (7 players) Hero is Button with
UTG (poster) checks, UTG+1 folds, MP1 calls, CO folds, Hero calls, <font color="#cc0000">SB raises to $0.04</font>, BB folds, UTG calls, MP1 folds, Hero calls.

Flop: ($0.16, 3 players)
<font color="#cc0000">SB bets $0.08</font>, UTG calls, <font color="#cc0000">Hero raises to $0.24</font>, SB calls, UTG folds.

Turn: ($0.72, 2 players)
SB checks, <font color="#cc0000">Hero bets $0.55</font>, SB calls.

River: ($1.82, 2 players)
<font color="#cc0000">SB is all-in $0.89</font>, Hero calls.

Results:
Final pot: $3.6
<font color="#ffffff">SB showed 5h Kh</font>


After flop, I figure, I'm trying to represent at least a pair
of Queens, and hopefully the flush draw will bail me out if I get called.

After turn, I figure, excellent, now I'm representing AAQQ,
and hopefully, the flush will bail me out if it hits.

After the river, however, I thought my call was marginal
at best, and quite possibility totally stupid. I mean,
what in the world did I think he was calling me down with ???

Thoughts?

[Lurker.]

i'd usually check behind on the turn...

[DaycareInferno]

don't limp in with trash. just throw that hand away pf unless you have a good chance of stealing with it, although its probably a lot harder to steal at .01/.02

on the flop, i would just call. you're getting 4:1, so there's not even any need to semibluff. your bluff probably doesn't have much fe anyway, considering the limits and that its a multiway pot. its not a real big deal though, but at least take your free card on the turn.

[quirkasaurus]

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i'd usually check behind on the turn...

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then call or fold on the river all-in ?

[DaycareInferno]

call, you're getting better than 3:1

[Lurker.]

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i'd usually check behind on the turn...

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then call or fold on the river all-in ?

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snap call double fist pump

[quirkasaurus]

lol -- ok, thanks.

after the beat -- i felt like I misplayed it pretty bad,
but I guess the end result might still be the same.

thanks, again.

[Lurker.]

oh btw, your preflop call is pretty bad.

[kurto]

(1) you don't have to play every 2 suited. I really doubt J3s is going to be a bigger winner for you in the long run. Just fold it.
(2) at .01/.02 poker, you're rarely going to get people to fold anything. So don't try to 'represent' something. Bet for value.
(3) If you had what you were representing then your opponent was playing terribly. As it is, you were betting from behind the entire way. This is one of the problems playing subpar hands.

The key to winning at those stakes is to play better starting hands then your opponents.